Landscape Architecture in Canada Launch, Ottawa

MQUP has joined forces with the CSLA, LACF, and les Presses de l’Université de Montréal to promote Ron Williams’ long awaited and fascinating book, Landscape Architecture in Canada with a cross-Canada promotional Book Tour.

The tour entitled ‘CONVERSATIONS’ provides a unique opportunity to create public awareness about the role landscape architects have played in shaping the Canada we live in today. More info

This first event is taking place during the 2014 CSLA Congress in Ottawa, May 30th, 2014, in Château Laurier's Adam Room.

Landscape Architecture in Canada provides a detailed panorama of the man-made landscapes that vary as widely as the country's geography. The book profiles the projects and people that defined landscape architecture, illuminating the motivations and aspirations that drove landscape architects and explaining the intellectual climate in which they worked. Williams casts a wide net and examines the varied traditions and impacts of Canada’s first peoples, its early colonists, later immigrant communities, the remarkable landscape innovations of nineteenth-century industrial cities as well as agricultural landscapes and the protected natural environments of national parks. He also shows how stimulating new ideas from recent decades have expanded landscape architecture and opened the door to projects that embody a distinctive Canadian approach, reflecting the social and natural diversity of contemporary society and its responses to rapid change.

Thoroughly researched, practically oriented, and grounded in the country's many regions, Landscape Architecture in Canada is a richly illustrated and affecting narrative of the ways in which we have shaped our environment and an inimitable lens through which to view the story of Canada.